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...Palace, Putney Swope) and Carol Burnett. Shapiro's tactic is to restage some popular forms-a commercial, an adventure series, the 6 o'clock news-with all due attention to nuances of style. One of The Groove Tube's best sequences, for example, is a Butz beer commercial...
Less Capital. But there is also some suspicion that middlemen, especially grocery chains, have been adding un-warrantedly to their profits. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz set a panel of experts to studying why retail meat prices remain high despite drops at the farm level, and the Federal Trade Commission launched a study to determine how the size and market share of major store chains affect competition and prices. Supermarket chiefs insist their profits are still low. The chains are earning only 9? profit on each $10 of sales, v. 7? last year. "Food retailers of this country...
Presidential Economics Adviser Kenneth Rush and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz huddled with cattlemen, meat packers and chain-store operators to explore ways to bring down the retail price of meat and stave off bankruptcies in the cattle industry. They urged the retailers to cut prices further to move meat off the shelves and into shopping baskets. Retailers indicated that they would cooperate, and Butz tried some sales promotion of his own. In a deliberately mixed-up metaphorical exhortation to consumers, he exclaimed: "Now is a whale of a good time to stock your home freezers with beef...
...Serious? So far, so good for the consumer. But while jawboning stores to cut prices temporarily, Butz declared that retail beef prices would have to go up again in coming months to maintain a strong cattle industry-a statement that might make keepers of family food budgets wonder how serious the Government is about fighting inflation. Washington suited a number of actions to Butz's words. The Government announced that it would step up purchase of as much as $100 million worth of pork and beef and store it for use in school lunch programs. Butz himself threatened...
...ever, the experts found. To bridge the gap, McGovern recommended that the U.S. set up a $20 billion "Plowshares for Peace" program that would build stockpiles of food for needy nations to draw on. That is another idea that seems unlikely to be adopted: Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who will present the Nixon Administration's proposals for solving world food problems to an international conference in Rome in November, has already turned thumbs down...